{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-transport-act-2008/section-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-transport-act-2008/section-126.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/26",
  "legislation_title": "Local Transport Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-transport-act-2008",
  "path": "section/126",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Vehicles used without operator's licence: power to return detained vehicles",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1A to the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (c. 23) (detention of vehicles used without operator's licence) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph 8 (power to make regulations for return of detained vehicle) substitute—\n“\n8 Regulations may make provision authorising a vehicle detained by virtue of paragraph 2 to be returned to the owner, in prescribed circumstances, without the need for any application under paragraph 9.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 126 partly in force; s. 126 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 134(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 126 in force at 9.2.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/126",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:43.373018+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}